Postal index 604XX Area 738 km² Subdivisions 42 | Established 1940 Time zone EET (UTC+2) Area code 380-3733X Founded 1940 | |
 | ||
Novoselytsia Raion (Ukrainian: Новоселицький район, Romanian: Raionul Noua Suliță [raˈjonul ˈnowa ˈsulit͡sə]) is a raion (administrative district) in Chernivtsi Oblast, (province) in the west of Ukraine. The center of the raion is the town of Novoselytsia.
Contents
- Map of Novoselytskyi district Chernivetska oblast Ukraine
- History and population
- Administrative divisions
- References
Map of Novoselyts'kyi district, Chernivets'ka oblast, Ukraine
History and population
From 1775 to 1918, Bukovina was an administrative division of the Habsburg Monarchy, and a province of Austria–Hungary (Austrian half). After World War I, Bucovina became part of Romania. In 1940, the northern half of Bucovina was annexed by the Soviet Union.
According to the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the raion's population was 87,241. The ethnical composition was as follows:
Sofia Rotaru was born in Marshintsy, one of the Romanian speaking villages of Novoselytskyi Raion.
Tarasivtsi village in the raion is notable as the only place in Ukraine where the Moldovan (Romanian) language has been designated as a regional language. This occurred after Ukraine permitted regional languages to be designated in August 2012 .
Administrative divisions
Novoselytsia Raion has 1 town and 30 communes:
Of these, Boiany, Chornivka, Mahala, Sloboda, Pripruttia, Toporivtsi and Zelenyi Hai are in the historical region of Bukovina, while the remainder are in Bessarabia.